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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia,
March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The rising application of crude palm oil (CPO) across diverse industries and the swelling global appetite for oils and fats, processed foods, cosmetics, and bio-diesel is encouraging the setting up of palm oil mills and refineries in
Southeast Asia. This, in turn, is creating a lucrative market for water and wastewater treatment (W&WWT) solutions in the region.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (
http://www.environmental.frost.com),
Water and Wastewater Treatment Solutions Market in Palm Oil Industry in Southeast Asia, finds that market earned revenues of
US$106.3 million in 2012 and estimates this to reach
US$145.0 million by 2016.

Palm oil production in
Malaysia and
Indonesia alone account for over 80 percent of the global CPO output. Owing to this high production of CPO, the W&WWT solutions market in
Southeast Asia will thrive, unlike its slowdown-affected counterparts in
Europe and
North America.

The intense activity in refineries, along with the strict environmental regulations that hold industry participants accountable for their effluent discharge, will drive the adoption of sludge management solutions.

The palm oil industry critically needs to treat palm oil mill effluent (POME), a key by-product of CPO production. Therefore, market participants will do well to provide solutions that reduce biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) from POME. They can achieve this by using membrane bioreactor as a secondary wastewater treatment.

"While most smaller mills still resort to the conventional open ponding method for reducing BOD and COD, membrane technologies remain the more costly yet most effective alternative POME treatment solutions for the palm oil industry," said
Frost & Sullivan Environmental Senior Consultant David Lee.

The high investment costs associated with W&WWT solutions will continue to peg back the market to some extent, as small-to-medium scale palm oil mills will choose to do the bare minimum to comply with the local regulations.